μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Bull refuses to fight goat. Bull being pursued by lion tries to go into cave. Goat refuses to let him in. Bull must go on, for with lion pursuing he has no time to fight goat.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choices: important and unimportant work. · view the constellation · filed as J371.1

ask the rhapsode about this motif →

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • general Wienert FFC LVI 56 (ET 168), 112 (ST 234)
  • general Halm Aesop 396.
Within the index

Filed under No time for minor fights when life is in danger.

wander